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So Eden was deserted and at eve	A
Into the quiet place God came to grieve	A
His face was sad His hands hung slackly down	B
Along his robe too sorrowful to frown	B
He paced along the grassy paths and through	C
The silent trees and where the flowers grew	C
Tended by Adam All the birds had gone	D
Out to the world and singing was not one	E
To cheer the lonely God out of His grief	F
The silence broken only when a leaf	F
Tapt lightly on a leaf or when the wind	G
Slow handed swayed the bushes to its mind	G
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And so along the base of a round hill	H
Rolling in fern He bent His way until	H
He neared the little hut which Adam made	I
And saw its dusky rooftree overlaid	I
With greenest leaves Here Adam and his spouse	J
Were wont to nestle in their little house	J
Snug at the dew time here He standing sad	K
Sighed with the wind nor any pleasure had	K
In heavenly knowledge for His darlings twain	L
Had gone from Him to learn the feel of pain	L
And what was meant by sorrow and despair	M
Drear knowledge for a Father to prepare	M
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There he looked sadly on the little place	N
A beehive round it was without a trace	N
Of occupant or owner standing dim	O
Among the gloomy trees it seemed to Him	O
A final desolation the last word	P
Wherewith the lips of silence had been stirred	P
Chaste and remote so tiny and so shy	Q
So new withal so lost to any eye	Q
So pac't of memories all innocent	R
Of days and nights that in it had been spent	S
In blithe communion Adam Eve and He	T
Afar from Heaven and its gaudery	M
And now no more He still must be the God	U
But not the friend a Father with a rod	U
Whose voice was fear whose countenance a threat	V
Whose coming terror and whose going wet	V
With penitential tears not evermore	M
Would they run forth to meet Him as before	M
With careless laughter striving each to be	T
First to His hand and dancing in their glee	T
To see Him coming they would hide instead	W
At His approach or stand and hang the head	W
Speaking in whispers and would learn to pray	M
Instead of asking 'Father if we may '	-
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Never again to Eden would He haste	X
At cool of evening when the sun had paced	X
Back from the tree tops slanting from the rim	O
Of a low cloud what time the twilight dim	O
Knit tree to tree in shadow gathering slow	Y
Till all had met and vanished in the flow	Y
Of dusky silence and a brooding star	M
Stared at the growing darkness from afar	M
While haply now and then some nested bird	P
Would lift upon the air a sleepy word	P
Most musical or swing its airy bed	W
To the high moon that drifted overhead	W
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'Twas good to quit at evening His great throne	Z
To lay His crown aside and all alone	Z
Down through the quiet air to stoop and glide	A2
Unkenned by angels silently to hide	A2
In the green fields by dappled shades where brooks	B2
Through leafy solitudes and quiet nooks	B2
Flowed far from heavenly majesty and pride	A2
From light astounding and the wheeling tide	A2
Of roaring stars Thus does it ever seem	C2
Good to the best to stay aside and dream	C2
In narrow places where the hand can feel	D2
Something beside and know that it is real	D2
His angels silly creatures who could sing	E2
And sing again and delicately fling	E2
The smoky censer bow and stand aside	A2
All mute in adoration thronging wide	A2
Till nowhere could He look but soon He saw	F2
An angel bending humbly to the law	F2
Mechanic knowing nothing more of pain	L
Than when they were forbid to sing again	G2
Or swing anew the censer or bow down	B
In humble adoration of His frown	B
This was the thought in Eden as He trod	U
It is a lonely thing to be a God	U
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So long afar through Time He bent His mind	G
For the beginning which He could not find	G
Through endless centuries and backwards still	H
Endless forever till His 'stonied will	H
Halted in circles dizzied in the swing	E2
Of mazy nothingness His mind could bring	E2
Not to subjection grip or hold the theme	C2
Whose wide horizon melted like a dream	C2
To thinnest edges Infinite behind	G
The piling centuries were trodden blind	G
In gulfs chaotic so He could not see	T
When He was not who always had To Be	T
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Not even godly fortitude can stare	M
Into Eternity nor easy bear	M
The insolent vacuity of Time	H2
It is too much the mind can never climb	H2
Up to its meaning for without an end	I2
Without beginning plan or scope or trend	I2
To point a path there nothing is to hold	J2
And steady surmise so the mind is rolled	J2
And swayed and drowned in dull Immensity	J2
Eternity outfaces even Me	T
With its indifference and the fruitless year	M
Would swing as fruitless were I never there	M
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And so for ever day and night the same	K2
Years flying swiftly nowhere like a game	K2
Played random by a madman without end	J2
Or any reasoned object but to spend	J2
What is unspendable Eternal Woe	Y
O Weariness of Time that fast or slow	Y
Goes never further never has in view	C
An ending to the thing it seeks to do	C
And so does nothing merely ebb and flow	Y
From nowhere into nowhere touching so	Y
The shores of many stars and passing on	L2
Careless of what may come or what has gone	D
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O solitude unspeakable to be	T
For ever with oneself never see	T
An equal face or feel an equal hand	J2
To sit in state and issue reprimand	J2
Admonishment or glory and to smile	M2
Disdaining what has happen d the while	M2
O to be breast to breast against a foe	Y
Against a friend to strive and not to know	Y
The laboured outcome love nor be aware	M
How much the other loved and greatly care	M
With passion for that happy love or hate	J2
Nor know what joy or dole was hid in fate	J2
For I have ranged the spacy width and gone	D
Swift north and south striving to look upon	L2
An ending somewhere Many days I sped	J2
Hard to the west a thousand years I fled	J2
Eastwards in fury but I could not find	J2
The fringes of the Infinite Behind	J2
And yet behind and ever at the end	J2
Came new beginnings paths that did not wend	J2
To anywhere were there and ever vast	J2
And vaster spaces opened till at last	J2
Dizzied with distance thrilling to a pain	L
Unnameable I turned to Heaven again	G2
And there My angels were prepared to fling	E2
The cloudy incense there prepared to sing	E2
My praise and glory O in fury I	Q
Then roared them senseless then threw down the sky	Q
And stamped upon it buffeted a star	M
With my great fist and flung the sun afar	M
Shouted My anger till the mighty sound	J2
Rung to the width frighting the furthest bound	J2
And scope of hearing tumult vaster still	H
Throning the echo dinned My ears until	H
I fled in silence seeking out a place	N
To hide Me from the very thought of Space	N
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And so He thought in Mine own Image I	Q
Have made a man remote from Heaven high	Q
And all its humble angels I have poured	J2
My essence in his nostrils I have cored	J2
His heart with My own spirit part of Me	T
His mind with laboured growth unceasingly	H
Must strive to equal Mine must ever grow	Y
By virtue of My essence till he know	Y
Both good and evil through the solemn test	J2
Of sin and retribution till with zest	J2
He feels his godhead soars to challenge Me	T
In Mine own Heaven for supremacy	T
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Through savage beasts and still more savage clay	H
Invincible I bid him fight a way	H
To greater battles crawling through defeat	J2
Into defeat again ordained to meet	J2
Disaster in disaster prone to fall	H
I prick him with My memory to call	H
Defiance at his victor and arise	N2
With anguished fury to his greater size	N2
Through tribulation terror and despair	M
Astounded he must fight to higher air	M
Climb battle into battle till he be	T
Confronted with a flaming sword and Me	T
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So growing age by age to greater strength	O2
To greater beauty skill and deep intent	J2
With wisdom wrung from pain with energy	T
Nourished in sin and sorrow he will be	T
Strong pure and proud an enemy to meet	J2
Tremendous on a battle field or sweet	J2
To walk by as friend with candid mind	J2
Dear enemy or friend so hard to find	J2
I yet shall find you yet shall put My breast	J2
In enmity or love against your breast	J2
Shall smite or clasp with equal ecstasy	T
The enemy or friend who grows to	J2